10 Reasons You Should Consider Chiropractic Therapy

One of the most sought after forms of alternative healing is chiropractic care. Amongst cancer survivors who seek chiropractic therapy, 84% do so to alleviate pain, improve mood and sleeping habits, as well as to relieve stress.

The purpose of chiropractic treatment is not only to relieve pain, but to improve quality of life by alleviating systemic problems relating to muscles and the central nervous system. Given the researched benefits of chiropractic care, it is likely that you or someone you know could benefit from this alternative therapy.

Let’s take a look at the top 10 reasons you might benefit from chiropractic care.

1. Elevates Sports Performance

Both athletes and non-athletes can benefit from sports-specific chiropractors. These specialized doctors have a focus on manipulating joints, soft tissue, and the spine to improve recovery time and prevent injury of strains, sprains, and even concussions.

Chiropractors can teach you how to focus on the proper techniques for the sport you play. This will include stretching techniques which can reduce the occurrence of an injury, the severity of an injury, and a recommended rehabilitation time frame for healing.

2. Reduces Headaches

Do you have frequent headaches? Do you find that headaches dramatically impact your health and ability to maintain the lifestyle you want? Neck pressure and movement can exacerbate the severity of headaches caused by abnormal head positioning such as hunching over at a computer during the work day.

Chiropractic therapy can remove obstructing structures causing the tightness in the back and strain on the spine. Receiving chiropractic care is an effective way to limit the occurrence of headaches, and lessen the intensity when they do occur.

3. Stimulates the Immune System

The immune system interacts directly with the nervous system affecting overall health. Again, obstructions with the signaling pathways between the nervous and the immune system impact the ability to heal adequately.

Without the use of surgery or medication, chiropractic care removes these barriers so that the body can properly repair itself at a genetic level and stimulate the immune system fully.

4. Wellness and Prevention

Chiropractic procedures manipulate the spine and entail a variety of procedures which treat underlying health problems. For instance, decompression exercises improve sleeping habits and have no known side effects.

Cancer: Education teaches all, especially cancer patients, how to improve wellness and prevent future occurrences or a secondary cancer. Chiropractic therapy focuses on some of the first common symptoms of cancer: musculoskeletal pain and dysfunction as well as chronic headaches.

In fact, 70% of advanced cancer patients, including those with cancer of the lungs, thyroid, breasts, kidney, and prostate have metastasized cancer in the skeletal system. Chiropractic treatment has also been shown to improve healing in cancer patients, as opposed to medication and other conventional therapies.

5. Alleviates Allergies and Asthma

Both chiropractors and parents of children suffering from allergies such as asthma support the positive results of chiropractic treatment.

Studies also support that chiropractic therapy benefits patients by decreasing the amount of medication needed. They suffer fewer asthma attacks and report an overall lessening of symptoms leading to an improved quality of life.

6. Pregnancy

Throughout pregnancy, many women experience chronic back pain due to the changing weight distribution on the pelvis and joints. Pain and muscle spasms may increase the likelihood that a pregnant mother will struggle during labor and delivery.

Chiropractic treatment focuses on balancing the muscles, pelvis, and ligaments during pregnancy to relieve pressure on the uterus. This treatment increases the likelihood that the child will be born via a preferable position while lowering the risk of being born through cesarean section.

Seventy-two percent of women report finding relief from pain during pregnancy and labor resulting from chiropractic care. Part of this success may due to the fact that women are encouraged and shown how to follow a proper exercise routine for pregnancy. This reduces weight gain, improves hormones, and allows for a more comfortable rest during sleep.

7. Mitigates Chronic Pain

Low back pain affects more than 10% of the population globally, and is the most common occupational injury in the United States and Canada. North America ranks low back pain sixth amongst contributing factors for increased medical cost. Compared to conventional health management practices, chiropractic care is low cost and improves the healing of the entire body.

Doctors of chiropractic also focus on education, which is critical to reducing injuries, disability, care costs, and adverse side effects. Chiropractic therapy is also a patient preference for providing pain relief.

8. Manages Behavioral and Learning Disabilities

Chiropractic procedures improve wellness and can help reduce hyperactivity and disruptive behaviors linked to ADHD and learning disabilities associated with autism.

Evidence supports that chiropractic treatment can better able a child to concentrate. In turn, it improves learning and behavior by limiting causes of agitation.

9. Weakens Dependence on Medication and Medical Interventions

There has been a 65% increase in patients seeking spinal treatment over an 8 year period, contributing to a significant rise in healthcare costs. However, approximately 96% of people with low back pain can find relief without surgery. This could lead to a remarkable lowering of costs.

Chronic pain is on the rise. The first line of treatment most individuals turn to for pain relief involves medication. Tens of thousands of people consuming drugs like acetaminophen and oxycodone have reported injuries and deaths directly resulting from drug use. Drugs have adverse side effects unlike chiropractic care.

Young adults are especially susceptible to drug overdoses. Dr. Joseph Wiley, Chief of Pediatrics at Sinai Hospital in Baltimore, is quoted as saying “If you extrapolate from an adult dose to a pediatric dose, you may be right…you may be wrong.”

10. Normalizes Blood Pressure

Hypertension affects around 33% of Americans. Most of these individuals will use medication to manage the condition. Chiropractic care can significantly control blood pressure. Chiropractic adjustments have been shown to result in a decrease in both systolic and diastolic blood pressure readings.

In fact, tests show that chiropractic care works as effectively at managing hypertension as do two of the most commonly prescribed medications. Chiropractors focus on the bone at the top of the neck in proximity to the brain stem which may be the reason for the impact on regulating blood pressure.

Have you ever received chiropractic therapy? If so, please share your experiences below in the Comments section.

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Yes its all very subjective and difficult to find the Chiropractors who specialize specifically in Correction. The practices I worked in, both used a business model called WLP – Waiting List Practice. CJ Mertz is the founder. I did seminars with him all over the country and he is amazing. Using his model of business, I saw incredible results that just inspired me further into how effective Chiropractic is. You can find more information on it here: http://teamwlp.com/ Maybe you can contact them directly and ask if there are any WLP Chiropractors in your area. Not all WLP Chiro’s practice CBP (Chiropractic Biophysics) though. The reason I give this technique my endorsement, is because it’s a global technique not subluxation based. It focuses on the whole spinal alignment rather than just single misalignments. The most effective practices I found, always use either x-rays or Tomography so maybe this is something you can check when you call offices too. Be careful around the electromagnetic frequencies from computers and wireless technology in particular, as it causes so much stress on the body, it will pull the spine out of alignment through inflammation. If your elbows and wrists are a problem, this could be happening. Good luck LisaC, I hope you can find an amazing Chiropractor.

Lynda Sykes, I agree totally with all you said. Chiropractors are brilliant, but you do have to find the right one for your issue. There are many different techniques used by chiropractors and they do not all treat in the same way. But generally chiropractors rock!!

Hi , Hopefully looking for one that is a Healing chiropractor, must take xrays before treatment and will take xrays after treatment. Will also discuss your nutrition! Your Gut is where most diseases stem from…

For months I had a burning pain in my upper back, it was so bad I was hard to live with, so hard my wife couldn’t stand my complaining and told me she couldn’t be around me any longer and I got out of the car and she left leaving me at a small town in Nevada. My two small children cried and soon she came back. I got in but the pain continued. I went to work as a logger and finally the pain was so intolerable I decided to see a chiropractor, though I thought they were quacks. It was desperation and since doctors only recommended pills, which I hated I thought I’d do anything figuring it would do no good I saw one in Aberdeen, WA. He took an X-ray and soon came back with it and said, “I can fix your problem. He said my head was out of line with my neck bones, or something like that, this was forty years ago. I don’t remember if I stood up, laid down, sat down or what, but he manipulated my head and there was all kind of cracking sounds. I worried he’d broken my neck. Then he said something like, “There, you’re as good a new, you won’t need to see me again.” The pain never came back and I never saw him again but I’m eternally thankful. Thanks, doc, I wished I’d called him and told him so.

I seen The John Stockton part from a video about how the AMA propaganda was trying to destroy chiropratic medicine. The fact Stockton sprained his ankle at the end of the 3rd quarter, and actually was back in the game is incredible!

I’ve been to chiropractors many times in my life when my back was out and the treatment definitely helped. However, I am now 64 years old. I recently had 4 treatments and it didn’t help at all. The thing is it’s in the lower back to the left and only comes when I’m tired either from working in the garden or late evening.

I love chiropractic care; I hate taking medicine. My chiropractor “cured” me from the “bronchitis” my MD said I had. Another time I fell down some concrete steps and tore the skin down to the bone on three fingers. My holistic chiropractor treated those with a salve and daily laser treatments. They healed rapidly with no scarring whatsoever. He also cleared up “carpal tunnel syndrome” on which another MD wanted to operate! Same went for when I injured my shoulder. So now I go to my chiropractor first; and only go to an MD if he says I need one. That said, not all chiropractors are well versed in homeopathy, kinesiology, or nutrition. (Or Chinese herbs for that matter)

I recommend chiropractic treatment 100% above any other treatment or MD. If only i had listened to my chiropractor 5 years ago when i had an unnecessary back operation when advised not to have by my chiropractor. Due to pressure from my children i, under duress, agreed to have the operation. It was totally unnecessary as the orthopedic surgeon who operated was arrogant and had an attitude. My biopsis was ‘negative’. NOW. i only listen to my wonderful chiropractor who has restored my health.

It is interesting and vital to note after this reply my Marcus Dunn that there is no such thing as “chiropractic therapy”. The intent of chiropractic adjustment is quite simply to optimize the transmissions between the brain and body’s cells and systems. The almost irresistable urge to put all health care into the medical therapeutic BOX is largly due to amnesia caused by relentless pharmaceurical advertising. Another way to see this is that every living thing needs to be tuned up periodically in order to perform its true tole in the orchestra that is LIFE EXPRESSION. I trust that I have been clear on this essential distinction between the business of symptom therapies and chiropractic adustments of neurological implications of spinal sublusation. The further distinction I will make here is that the whole point of chiropractic adjustment is the optimization of brain-body communication and not only the physical manipulation of somatic dysfunction advocated by Osteopaths. VSC (vertebral sybluxation complex) embodies the disorders of somatic dyskinesia, autonomic dysponesis and the psychosomatic realms of brain/heart interaction we might know as empathy. There is a fundamen or feduciary duty implicit in the hunan state to always remain in identify with the Source of what we are as human Being.

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